the Hearth :ms_agender_flag:

Anyone know anything about getting a PS3 to play video off an external hard drive? the drive is MBR with a single 256GB FAT32 partition on it (the drive itself is much larger but the rest of it is not being used right now), which is what the internet suggests should be all that's needed for a PS3 to recognise it, but it won't show up. It has a bunch of MP4s on it that were converted with handbrake specifically to be playstation compatible video files

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shork

@Felthry Plex works on the PS3 so you could probably stream the files from your computer

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the Hearth :ms_agender_flag:

@noiob What's plex? Is it something that can be used on an unmodded ps3? I don't know if the ps3 can even connect to wifi, we only have one ethernet jack

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shork

@Felthry the ps3 has wifi, and it's a video streaming server/client. It shows up as a video app on my ps3 so I assume it's just available on psn

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Siph

@noiob @Felthry the PS3 has WiFi and supports UPnP, but it has quite restrictive music support. I used to just have an UPnP server that would transcode audio files to wav to play music on the TV's sound system, but I don't remember which server and if it could do that with videos

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the Hearth :ms_agender_flag:

@Siphonay @noiob What's UPnP?

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Siph

@Felthry @noiob it's a media server protocol

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shork

@Siphonay @Felthry isn't it usually known as DLNA?

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the Hearth :ms_agender_flag:
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@noiob @Siphonay i'm not really sure how to use a media server in general, never had any cause to before

would prefer to just get this external usb hard drive to work

could the fact that it's usb 3.0 be a problem? usb 3 is supposed to be backwards compatible and the drive is externally powered though

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shork

@Felthry @Siphonay my money is on that the PS3 can't handle the size for some reason

DLNA/uPnP is natively supported on the PS3, my phone can open one and it just shows up, it's pretty handy

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Siph

@Felthry @noiob well they're pretty simple to set up, servers usually have relatively friendly graphical interfaces and you don't need to do any networking stuff, just have both your devices on the same network and it'll show up on your PS3. No clue why your drive doesn't show up though

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the Hearth :ms_agender_flag:

@Siphonay @noiob Looking to install a upnp server, do you know of any that are good, free, and can have a password on them? I don't want this to be open to just anyone in the apartment complex

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shork

@Felthry @Siphonay oh yeah upnp might not actually work in your weird network setup

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